The only state with a three digit average IQ that voted for Bush was Virginia.

2004 Election Breakdown by Average State IQ

] These changes in the entrepreneur profile represent an
] enormous return on our collective investment in the
] irrational exuberance of the late 90s. As a nation, we
] have probably spent something close to $500 billion on
] entrepreneur development over the past 10 years, if you
] consider the venture capital, corporate capital, and
] public capital that has been spent on high-tech startups
] during that period. We tend to focus on the flood of
] money that was wasted on goofy ideas and flawed business
] models, but we have not given full respect to the value
] that investment has created%u2014not just the eBays and
] and Googles of the world, but (more importantly) the
] experience pool and the knowledge base that has been
] created, and the propagation of best practices throughout
] our economy.

I've been saying this all along... there's a tremendous amount of gold to be mined from the boom-bust. Not just in intellectual capital, but experience and perspective. It will reverberate and echo for decades.

The New Entrepreneur

] A widely published investigative journalist was tackled,
] punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach
] County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his
] camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters.

...

] A sheriff's spokesman and a county attorney later said
] the deputy was enforcing a newly enacted rule from
] Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore prohibiting reporters
] from interviewing or photographing voters lined up
] outside the polls.

WTF?

Deputy tackles, arrests journalist for photographing voters

University of Maryland's archive of failed businesses.

Business Plan Archive

] In an effort to increase the integrity of next week's
] presidential election, five voting machine makers agreed
] for the first time to submit their software to the
] National Software Reference Library for safekeeping,
] federal officials said on Tuesday.

A small, but important, step in the right direction.

E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software

] Reliance on a single metrics is a major feature of
] Microsoft's Get the Facts campaign, and this is perhaps
] understandable if we consider what the campaign is.

A great redux of the MS marketing campaign which is touting better security metrics for MS's products, erroneously of course.

Windows v Linux security: the real facts

] "Gov. (Jeb) Bush successfully ran the clock out on the
] ability to improve the election process for 2004," Wexler
] said.

agreed. While the reasons for trying to determine 'intent' are ridiculously stupid, the fact is that having a receipt or external paper trail is in the best interest of democracy. It's another safety check that can be used ALONG WITH open sourced code for the machines, to prevent fraud and abuse.

Judge Tosses Fla. E-Voting Paper Trail Suit

The world is safer.

What 'freedom' will look like in the Middle East

] THIS IS NOT GARY BETTMAN SPEAKING, SO DON'T GO POSTING
] THIS ON SOME BULLETIN BOARD, SAYING: "Wow, did you see
] what Bettman said!" This is our perception of what he
] COULD say.

How Bettman really feels

] Mr. Elder's vehicle was one of at least 60 new CR-V's
] nationwide to catch fire suddenly while on the road. In
] most cases, the vehicles had just been serviced for their
] first oil changes.

YIKES!

Why Are Honda CR-V's Catching Fire?